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“The greatest obstacle to learning is what we think we already know.” The Relational Blind Spot International development institutions, donors and policy consultants often arrive in African countries with a playbook, one rooted in technocratic logic, universal metrics and formal institutional...

October 20, (THEWILL) — In today’s digital economy, financial services no longer operate on banking hours. Customers expect instant, 24/7 access to their accounts, transfers, and payments. From Lagos to Abuja and Port Harcourt to Kano, a growing middle...

October 20, (THEWILL) — The National Co-ordinator, Pragmatic Shareholders’ Association, Mrs Bisi Bakare, has applauded the strategic reforms in the economy, especially those that relate to the financial services sector.  In this interview, she extols the role of the shareholder...

October 19, (THEWILL) — With estimates suggesting that Nigeria needs around $100 billion in investments each year for the next decade to help improve its infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity for positive change and economic growth. Many of...

October 13, (THEWILL) — A nation is often judged by the quality of life it affords its elderly citizens. In developed societies, this is measured by access to healthcare, decent accommodation and dignity in retirement. In Nigeria, however, this...

October 12, (THEWILL) — For too long, taxation in Nigeria has been viewed with suspicion—an opaque process where citizens pay, sometimes reluctantly, with little confidence in how fairly their contributions are assessed or applied. President Bola Tinubu’s sweeping 2025 tax...

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. But without visibility, there is no demand.” The Paradox of Visible Power and Hidden Process In governance conversations across the African continent, accountability is a word that travels easily. It appears in policy speeches, donor...

October 06, (THEWILL) — It is worrisome that President Tinubu is taking more loans despite the fact that Nigeria is having problems with the increasingly high cost of debt servicing. Debt servicing is taking more than 27 percent of...

October 05, (THEWILL) — Nigeria’s fintech revolution has fundamentally transformed the banking landscape in Africa’s largest economy. Platforms like Flutterwave, Paystack, OPay, and Kuda now process billions of naira daily, creating unprecedented access to financial services for millions previously...

October 05, (THEWILL) — In Part One of this series, we explored how networks can either stall progress or scale reform, depending on how they are designed, governed, and mobilised. We looked at examples from across Africa: from Rwanda’s...